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Compare/contrast some psychologists’ perspectives on what the basic datum of psychology is (i.e., on what psychologists should focus) and how it ought to be studied.

Gestalt Psychology & Humanistic Psychology :

Wertheimer, M. (1938). Gestalt theory. In W. D. Ellis (Ed.), A source book of Gestalt psychology (pp. 1-11). London, England: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Company. doi:10.1037/11496-001

Rogers, C. R. (1956). Becoming a person: Some hypotheses regarding the facilitation of personal growth. Pastoral Psychology, 7(61), 9-13. doi:10.1007/BF01560065

Behaviorism & Neobehaviorism

Rutherford, A. (2003). B. F. Skinner’s technology of behavior in American life: From consumer culture to counterculture. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 39, 1-23. doi:10.1002/jhbs.10090

Skinner, B. F. (1990). Can psychology be a science of mind? American Psychologist, 45(11), 1206-1210. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.45.11.1206

Cognitivism & Cognitive Psychology

Neisser, U. (1979). The concept of intelligence. Intelligence, 3(3), 217-227. doi:10.1016/0160-2896(79)90018-7

Psychoanalysis

Freud, S. (1920). The psychology of errors (G. S. Hall, Trans.). In A general introduction to psychoanalysis (pp. 10-22). New York, NY, US: Horace Liveright. doi:10.1037/10667-002 